PUBLICITY PUZZLES

These puzzles were part of pre-hunt publicity. They
were seen on posters, emails, etc.

What is the key to solving most puzzles?

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:00:00 -0500
From: "25th Annual MIT IAP MYSTERY HUNT"
To: puzzler@mit.edu
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Subject: Re: Hunt Start Location?
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puzzler@mit.edu wrote:
> Your old flyers have a date and time, but no location..
> Where does the madness actually start?
>
> Sincerely,
> Concerned Hunter
If you can't figure that out, you're probably going to spend an
irrational number(7) of hours on this hunt. You really should prime(2)
yourself for some h4rdk0re thinkage, otherwise it'll take you weeks,
perhaps months(6) to solve a single puzzle. The key, or the bottom
line(3) of it is that you need to be willing to shift gears(10) a bit,
among other things. You'll have to take an ordinal number(9) of steps
in order to solve an inordinate number of puzzles, but the pot of gold
at the end of this rainbow(4/5) will only be found if you think "outside
of the box" on a major scale(1). If you don't, you'll be in for several
worlds(8) of mental pain. Good luck!
Sadistically Yours,
The Hunt Organizers
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